THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1998 - Telecommunications giant AT&T struck a deal to buy cable TV giant TCI. * Yippee! Consolidation means lower phone and cable bills for everybody! 1997 - The Air Force released a report on the so-called Roswell Incident, suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies. * So obviously the Air Forcce thinks WERE dummies, too. 1962 - The first prototype home video recorder was demonstrated at the BBC Studios in London. * Blimey! Now I can tape the Benny Hill Show! 1947 - Private pilot Kenneth Arnold flying near Mt. Rainier, Washington reported the first modern day UFO sighting as nine silvery discs appeared out of nowhere - shortly afterwards, a reporter in Pendleton, Oregon wrote that Arnold had seen flying saucers, the first use of that term in print. * It rolled off the tongue so much better than airborne disks, levitating garbage can lids, giant floating quarters ... 1938 - A 500-ton meteorite landed near Pittsburgh, PA. * And no, I dont know how they weighed it. 1923 - H.B. Reese invented the peanut butter cup. * See, he was walking down the street eating some chocolate, and this other guy was coming around the corner eating some peanut butter, and ...
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:25:41 +0000
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